The pioneers of tomorrow
For some if not many animal protection groups it had been hard in the years between the end 70ies till relatively recently to draw continuous attention to “the animal question” in a completely human-centered society. [A]
I believe some groups did make the welfarist compromise in order to kindle a public discussion. The question is what a group’s pronounced goal is (policies and mission), and if their tactics override other ethical fundamentals at the same time while losing out on animal rights questions.
Another but somehow related thing is, those who ignore the obvious difficulties some groups had in their pioneering role as the early AP pressure groups, those who ignore the fact that pioneering has its own difficulties, those people should also address their own political shortcomings in animal rights terms.
Should you actively defend the integrity and life of an individual nonhuman animal? Yes you should. But often you can’t. DILEMMA. But that’s exactly a point where the future AR person will ask the pioneer of TODAY: what about animal dignity, what about active defense?
[A] Still today very many people who come from the vegan angle – which already is a most decisive and certainly indispensable progress and prerequisite for any advancement in animal rights concerns – create an output ONLY on diet related / cooking blogs, instead of discussing their opinions about the human – animal problem and situation, while at the same time every other opinion is being discussed from all angles and in all details in order to create a politcal meaningfulness for any so far only HUMAN or human-environmental concern. What about thoughts on the human – nonhuman animal relationship?! Seems there is not as much to have an opinion about, maybe cos we keep asserting ourselves – as AR people – that animal sentience is enough for us to claim liberation upon. A long subject for discussion. I stop here for now at this place and time.
